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Stem Cell Related Patent Number US6977159
| Title: | Methods for inhibiting cutaneous inflammation and hyperpigmentation | | Inventors: | Longley, B. Jack; Hamden, CT, USA | | Summary: | This invention describes novel compounds for inhibiting the stem cell factor signaling pathway, methods and uses thereof. Further disclosed are constituents of the compounds as well as the means by which signaling pathways are inhibited. Therapeutic applications are included such as in the treatment of hyperpigmentation, asthma, cutaneous inflammation, anaphylaxis and bronchospasm, mastocytosis, tumors which express activated kit, and conception. Claims of the invention include a specific suitability to the treatment and prevention of cutaneous inflammation and hyperpigmentation associated with such disorders as contact dermatitis, the successful treatment and prevention of which result from the effective inhibition of the specific stem cell signaling pathway addressed herein. Further described are the precise means of administration for delivering to a patient an antibody or portion thereof that binds to kit protein in an amount effective to inhibit the kinase enzymatic reaction of kit protein, which thereby inhibits the stem cell factor signaling pathway. This invention represents a continuation of other applications filed by the same assignee and inventor. | | Abstract: | This invention provides a method of preventing or treating in a subject contact dermatitis which comprises administering to the subject an amount of a compound capable of inhibiting the stem cell factor signaling pathway effective to prevent or treat contact dermatitis so as to thereby prevent or treat contact dermatitis in the subject. This invention also provides a method of preventing or treating in a subject hyperpigmentation, asthma, cutaneous inflammation, anaphylaxis and bronchospasm, mastocytosis, tumors which express activated kit, and conception. | | US Patent Website: | Click Here for Full Text of Patent | | Title Number: | US6977159 | | Application Number: | US2000000980572 | | Date Filed: | 05/05/2000 | | Date Published: | 20/12/2005 | | Assignee: | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, USA |
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